Archives > April 2007
Govt to Consider Allowing Consenual Sex Among Children
Hindustan Times - New Delhi, India, April 30, 2007
Prompted by a finding in a government study that a certain number of young children have sex or engage in sexual activity for experimenting, the government is examining the possibility of exempting consensual sex between them from the purview of a criminal offence.
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Exercise Restraint on Sex: Ram Dev
Times of India - New Delhi, India, April 30, 2007
Yogu guru Swami Ram Dev has launched a seven-day camp in Agra, saying ‘youth needed to exercise restraint on sex and other licentious activities’.
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Procreation Vs. Recreation
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai, India, April 29, 2007
Adultery and concubinage have traditionally enjoyed social sanction in Chinese cultural history, and although in more modern times, the law has taken a dim view of these practices, it is widely prevalent in civil society.
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Orissa Debates Sex Education in Schools
Times of India - New Delhi, India, April 29, 2007
After Maharashtra and Kerala, it is the turn of Orissa now to debate the touchy issue of sex education in schools. The government is finding itself on slippery turf on what it should do on the question of introducing the subject in the school curriculum.
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How a Blog Made a Girl Cry
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai, India, April 28, 2007
According to a 2006 study, based on a survey of more than 1,000 MSN portal visitors in India developed by Windows Live Spaces, the world’s largest blogging site, ‘unlike in most parts of Asia, where the blogosphere is dominated by women, in India, 76 per cent of bloggers are men’.
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Debate on Sex Education Heats Up Again
Hindustan Times - New Delhi, India, April 28, 2007
A debate on the manner in which sex education needs to be imparted in schools continues to remain in focus.
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Protest Against Sex Education
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta, India, April 28, 2007
The Orissa Board of Secondary Education’s efforts to introduce sex education in school curriculum under an adolescence education programme has run into rough weather.
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Japan Court Rejects Compensation Claims in Sex Slave Case
Boston Globe - Boston, USA, April 28, 2007
In two landmark rulings, Japan's highest court yesterday rejected compensation claims filed by former wartime sex slaves and forced laborers from China, but acknowledged that the affected people had been coerced by the Japanese military or industry.
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Teenage Abortions on the Rise in Beijing
China Daily - China, April 27, 2007
Thousands of teenage girls in Beijing have abortions each year, according to teenage sex clinics. Sources with Beijing Tian'an Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the first in the capital to open a hotline for pregnant teenagers, said more than 100 teenage girls received abortions during the first three months of the year.
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Meechai Wants Finger Condoms for Kids
Nation Multimedia - Bangkok, Thailand, April 26, 2007
Aids-prevention advocate Meechai Viravaidya yesterday revealed an outside-the-box idea - finger condoms for pre-school children so that they can get used to them.
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Rajasthan Says 'No' to Sex Education in Schools
NewKerala.com - Ernakulam, India, April 25, 2007
Rajasthan government has refused to impart sex education in its schools, saying the present form of the course was averse to Indian culture.
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BJP Opposes Sex Education in TN Schools
Hindu - Chennai, India, April 25, 2007
Strongly opposing moves to introduce sex education in Tamil Nadu schools, the BJP state president L Ganesan on Tuesday said it would ‘harm’ the country's culture.
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Thailand's 'Third Sex' Demand Constitutional Rights
CNN - USA, April 24, 2007
A gay, lesbian, transgender and transvestite groups in Thailand are campaigning for a clause in its post-coup constitution giving official status to the "third sex" to try to end discrimination.
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Singapore Considers Legalizing Homosexuality: Lee
Reuters - USA, April 24, 2007
According to the city-state’s founder, Lee Kuan Yew, ‘Singapore, striving to cast off its staid image and overhaul its economy, might have to legalize homosexuality to become more cosmopolitan, but will preserve its core values’.
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RP Cinema in Festival of Activists
INQ7.net - Philippines, April 24, 2007
Resource Centre Collaborative Event: Believing sexuality is a space of controversy between dominant and marginalized voices, “Films of Desire: Sexuality and the Cinematic Imagination” was organized to explore the ways in which desires get articulated - how normative and non-normative sexuality get represented in features, short films, documentaries, animation, music videos and experimental films in South and Southeast Asia.
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Family Planners, Gynaecologists Say Sex Education a Must in Schools
Mumbai Newsline - Mumbai, India, April 23, 2007
It is precisely to try and bring about a change in mindset that the Family Planning Association of India and the Federation of Obstetric and Gynaecological Societies of India decided to organise a discussion on ‘sex education and how it can be implemented in a non-threatening manner’.
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Gold Medal Awarded to Indian Sexologist
Hindu - Chennai, India, April 22, 2007
Dr D Narayana Reddy has been awarded the Gold Medal Award 2007 by the World Association for Sexology for his pioneering work in the field of sexual health in India.
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Katara Case Unveils the Ugly Face of Human Trafficking
Merinews - India, April 22, 2007
Babubhai Katara a BJP MP is held for human trafficking. It is alleged that he has committed similar offences earlier and had charged a huge amounts for the purpose. It is suspected the human-trafficking racket was spread over many states.
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A Taboo-Breaking Begum, Made Possible by Pervez
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai, India, April 22, 2007
she receives everyone in her elegant drawing room, from activist Mukhtaran Mai to singer Ali Zafar, from Lollywood to Bollywood. She is Begum Nawazish Ali, aka Ali Saleem.
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Sex, Religion and the Moral Police
Hindustan Times - New Delhi, India, April 21, 2007
Opinion – Vir Sanghvi: Only two things get Indians very agitated: religion and sex. The Star News incident was about religious intolerance. The subtext to the Gere-Shilpa controversy was sexual: a man and a woman should not behave like this in public.
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Court Confirms Dropping of Sex Charge
Nation Multimedia - Bangkok, Thailand, April 20, 2007
The Appeals Court yesterday upheld a lower court's decision to drop sex-service charges against massage-parlour-tycoon-turned politician Chuwit Kamolvisit.
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Sex Workers Ignorant About AIDS
Times of India - New Delhi, India, April 20, 2007
Though sex workers use condoms with their clients, they are not so particular with their lovers, claimed the study conducted by NGOs "Population Council" and "CARE-India". The survey, which was done among brothel and non-brothel-based sex workers, in the towns of Rajahmundry and Kakinada in the east Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh is considered to have one of the highest HIV-prevalence rate in the country.
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World's First Sex 'Theme Park' to Open in London
MRT online - Skopje, Macedonia, April 20, 2007
The Academy Of Sex & Relationships West End Theme Park is due to open at the London Trocadero near Piccadilly Circus and will occupy over 10,000 square feet of prime visitor attraction space.
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India's Dangerous Secret Sex Lives
BBC News - UK, April 19, 2007
More people are living with HIV in India than anywhere else but activists in Gujarat say that until sexual diversity is accepted, prevention may be impossible.
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Nepal Gets Its First Gay Beauty Salon
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai, India, April 19, 2007
A gay beauty salon has opened for the first time in Nepal and has been hailed as an “opportunity” to support sexual minorities and empower the poor and marginalised. The Cutey Beauty Salon, run by gays and trans-genders, opened in Kathmandu’s upmarket Lazimpat area, close to a thriving department store and a gallery.
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Pumping Poison: Harmful Medicines Being Sold Openly in Karkhano Market
Daily Times - Lahore, Pakistan, April 19, 2007
The Karkhano Market is famous for selling medicines containing steroids and most people buy them for sexual potency or physical strength.
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When a Kiss is Not Just a Kiss, Richard Gere and Parasites Panic
Maine Campus Online - Orono, USA, April 19, 2007
This week, Gere's effigy has been set aflame in several Indian cities after he made the culturally taboo move of kissing Bollywood starlet Shilpa Shetty.
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Nepal Gay Group Internationally Recognised
Gay.com UK - UK, April 18, 2007
The Blue Diamond Society, Nepal’s growing LGBT civil rights group, has been awarded with an esteemed international award from the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission.
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Malaysians Rank Sixth Fastest in Love-Making
New Straits Times - Persekutuan, Malaysia, April 18, 2007
According to the findings from the "Global Sexual Wellbeing Survey" by condom-maker Durex which was revealed at the ongoing World Congress on Sexual Health in Sydney, Australia, Malaysians spend an average of 19.9 minutes when they make love.
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Asians Rate Sex Lives So-So, Survey Finds
China Daily - China, April 18, 2007
The international survey of more than 26,000 people in 26 countries and regions found Asians ranked themselves among the least satisfied with their sex lives. The Global Sexual Wellbeing Survey was released at this week's World Congress on Sexual Health in Sydney.
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IT Act Skips ‘Child Pornography’ Point
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai, India, April 17, 2007
India’s fight against child pornography and efforts to make it an offence under the Information Technology (IT) Act may meet a pre-mature death, as a provision on the same suggested by an experts committee has mysteriously disappeared from the final draft of the IT (Amendment) Bill.
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Nepal: Maoists Should End Anti-Gay Violence
247gay.com - Los Angeles, USA, April 16, 2007
The Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist, which is now part of the Nepalese government, must stop anti-gay violence by its cadres and renounce anti-gay rhetoric, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to lawmakers today.
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Indians Won't Mind Experiment in Sex
Times of India - New Delhi, India, April 16, 2007
According to the Durex Global Sexual Wellbeing Survey, in the satisfaction stakes, Indians come third with 61 per cent of respondents saying they were fully satisfied with their sex lives, compared to a mere 44 per cent worldwide.
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Sex, Work and Pleasure
Times of India - New Delhi, India, April 16, 2007
Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC), Asia's largest sex workers' collective, has sparked off a debate by demanding that sex work be treated as entertainment work.
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Cruise Ship Captain Charged
The News - International – Pakistan, April 16, 2007
A German man has been arrested for alleged sexual abuse of a 13-year-old Cambodian street girl, an anti-trafficking official said on Monday.
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A Life Less Ordinary
Delhi Newsline - Delhi, India, April 15, 2007
With Being Male Being Koti, her first attempt at film-making, Bandhopadhyay tries to counter the stereotype of masculinity and femininity, bring out the social stigma attached to kotis (a South Asian term for homosexuals) and the loneliness that fills out their lives.
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Now, Eunuchs Can Conceive and Choose a Gender
Andhra Cafe - Hyderabad, India, April 15, 2007
Hermaphrodites, commonly known as eunuchs, can now choose a gender of their liking and some can even give birth to babies - thanks to a special procedure developed at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here.
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All Behold: The Autoerotic Man
City on a Hill Press - Santa Cruz, USA, April 14, 2007
Goldman was one of nine UC Santa Cruz artists whose work was unveiled at the Autoerotic Man show at the Porter Bridge Gallery last Friday. The art is highly erogenous, but alongside the current of sexual energy emanating from the exhibition space runs an intellectual discourse.
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Groundbreaking Principles on Sexual Orientation and Human Rights
HULIQ - Hickory, USA, April 14, 2007
Groundbreaking international legal principles on sexual orientation, gender identity, and international law have been released by 29 international human rights experts, led by University of Nottingham academic, Professor Michael O'Flaherty.
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NGOs Hail Child-Status Study, But Say Reality is Worse
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai, India, April 13, 2007
Child rights activists have lauded the government for undertaking the National Survey on Child Abuse (NSCA) but have warned that the disturbing findings might indicate only a small part of the problem.
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Phone in for Information
Hindu - Chennai, India, April 13, 2007
Based in Delhi, this non-profit organisation believes "that all people have the right to sexual well-being and to a self-affirming and enjoyable sexuality".
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Child Abuse in The Land of Child Worshippers
Desicritics.org - Bangalore, India, April 13, 2007
A nation wide survey on child abuse, based on 12,000 case studies, has recently revealed that in this country of child lovers, 53 per cent of all kids have been exposed to sexual or physical abuse, with Maharashtra leading the way and Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh close behind.
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Lesbians released by Nepal rebels
PinkNews.co.uk - UK, April 12, 2007
Two women working for an HIV/AIDS advocacy group in Nepal have been freed from a Maoist camp after a month in captivity.
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Alleged Paedophile Trying to Re-enter Sri Lanka
Nation on Sunday - Sri Lanka, April 12, 2007
An intelligence report that a notorious foreign paedophile was attempting to enter the country undercover last week alarmed all institutions protecting children’s rights in Sri Lanka.
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Gays in India Stage Rally for their Rights
Towleroad - New York City, USA, April 12, 2007
Gays from Bihar, West Bengal, and other states in India traveled to Patna on Wednesday to take part in meetings on gay rights, HIV, AIDS and health issues and homophobia. They then took to the streets in an equality march meant to raise public awareness of gay and transgender people.
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Mistresses an Acceptable Fact of Life in the Philippines
Philippine News Online - Philippines, April 11, 2007
In this conservative Roman Catholic nation of 87 million where divorce is still banned, it appears that mistresses -- being one and having one -- have gained a degree of acceptability.
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Brighton & Hove Town Hall to Fly Rainbow Flag
Gay.com UK - UK, April 11, 2007
Brighton is set to commemorate the International Day Against homophobioa (IDAHO) with a raft of celebratory events.
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Alternate Sexuality: Out of the closet?
Times of India - New Delhi, India
Queen Victoria of Britain refused to acknowledge that ‘it’ actually existed. And around 150 years later, Hindu fundamentalist groups tagged that ‘it’ as non-Indian - a wicked import of the ‘immoral West’.
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Alternate sexuality: Out of the closet? - Part II
Times of India - New Delhi, India
While more and more people may seem to be coming out of the closet, the journey has been far from easy, and the road ahead even tougher unless something changes drastically.
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NEPAL:More than 600000 Women Suffer Uterine Prolapses
PeaceJournalism.com - Nepal, April 10, 2007
More than 600,000 women suffer uterine prolapses. Many women in Nepal return to work immediately after giving birth, thereby increasing the risk of a prolapse developing.
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Sexual Harassment Bill May be Delayed
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai, India, April 9, 2007
Despite concerted efforts by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, the bill meant to prevent sexual harassment of women at work places faces many hurdles due to apprehensions in certain quarters about its possible misuse.
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Maoists 'Jail' Women for Lesbianism
Earthtimes.org - USA, April 9, 2007
Two young women were 'jailed' by Maoist guerrillas in southern Nepal for being lesbians, Nepal's sole gay rights group has said.
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Gay TV Show Debuts Online
China Daily - China, April 9, 2007
Qiao Qiao was the first guest on "Tongxing Xianglian," China's first gay chat show, an interactive online forum hosted by gay presenters.
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Survival Tools
Hindu - Chennai, India, April 8, 2007
The recent decision of the Maharashtra government, which follows in the footsteps of several other State governments including Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Gujarat and Karnataka, to ban sex education in all schools, is an issue.
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Corporal Punishment: Hey, Teacher, Leave Those Kids Alone
Expressindia.com - New Delhi, India, April 7, 2007
Pune’s child helpline Childline received, in 2006 alone, 47 school related complaints, 57 child abuse and 13 sex abuse cases, many of which occurred in school premises. Some instances cited: brutal physical, verbal, emotional and sexual abuse, acts of humiliation like checking of underclothes.
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Chinese Website Launches Country's First Gay-Focused Show
247gay.com - Los Angeles, USA, April 6, 2007
A web site in China launched Thursday what its producer describes as the country’s first show to focus on gay issues and the first with an openly gay host.
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Not-So-Naked Truth
Chicago Sun-Times - Chicago, IL,USA, April 6, 2007
An Indonesian man might, after Thursday's dismissal of indecency charges against the editor of a Jakarta-produced version of Playboy there. In the clash of sexual sensibilities between the West and Islam, Chicago-based Playboy called the decision proof that "there is a market for a high-quality men's lifestyle magazine" in Indonesia.
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Prevention a Must When There's No Cure for AIDS
China Daily - China, April 6, 2007
Earlier, a condom found in a girl's pocket could have been evidence of soliciting, but now an arrest is only made if someone is "caught in the act", says Yao. More than 5,300 of the 5,600 known "recreational sites" in Hubei are part of the CUP campaign today.
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Sexual Health Center Gets Legal Status
China Daily - China, April 6, 2007
The country's first male sexual health center with the authority to issue medical reports for legal cases involving injuries, divorce and rape recently opened its doors in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu Province.
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Activists Blast Thailand HIV/AIDS Draft Law
ohmynews.com - South Korea, April 6, 2007
Thailand AIDS NGO representatives and activists have widely dismissed a draft law on the protection of HIV-infected persons as discriminatory to the people it purports to protect.
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China's Homosexuals Only Slowly Emerging From Their Closets
Playfuls.com - Targu Mures, Romania, April 6, 2007
Together with some 100 colleagues, A Guang, a volunteer with China's first telephone hotline for homosexuals, offers legal and psychological counseling and answers questions pertaining to AIDS prevention free of charge.
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China's First Gay Chat Show Goes Live on the Internet
Reuters India - Mumbai, India, April 5, 2007
Qiao Qiao was the first guest on "Tongxing Xinglian", China's first gay chat show, an interactive online forum hosted by gay presenters and accessible to more than 130 million Internet users across the country.
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Sex Education Banned in India in Face of Rising Infections
PinkNews.co.uk - UK, April 5, 2007
Three Indian states have banned the introduction of sex education in schools, despite India having the greatest number of HIV/AIDS patients in the world.
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A Giant Leap Backwards
CounterCurrents.org - Mahrashtra, India, April 5, 2007
State governments in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh have banned sex education in schools. This is despite the central government's attempt to make it compulsory from standard six, next academic year onwards.
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Shedding Anti-Gay Section 377
Queerty - New York, USA, April 2, 2007
Colonialism may largely be a thing of the past, but its legacies still linger. For example, as we've mentioned before, India's law books still recognize the British-originated Section 377, as do the governments in Malaysia, Singapore and other long-independent former colonies.
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Kaohsiung's Sex School Starting its Second Year
Taipei Times - Taipei, Taiwan, April 2, 2007
The School of Human Sexuality, the only one of its kind in the nation, received 67 applications for just three places when the doctoral program started.
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Politicians Flip-Flop on Sex Education
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai, India, April 2, 2007
Almost 24 hours after raising the banner of revolt against sex education in school syllabus, politicians across party lines were ready to admit their mistake. “Sex is alright provided it is not provocative” poured the explanation from every quarter.
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Health Watch
Organiser - New Delhi, India, April 1, 2007
Regular general and pelvic examination, Haemoglobin test , Pap smear and pelvic ultrasound are vital components of women’s health. These annual check up can give you early indications of anaemia, high blood pressure, any abnormalities in women’s reproductive organs and breast.
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